Self-harm and attempted suicide among UK Armed Forces personnel: Results of a cross-sectional survey

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 433-439

  Pinder, Richard J ^a   Iversen, Amy C ^a   Kapur, Nav ^b   Wessely, Simon ^a   Fear, Nicola T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ex service; military; self harm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84862567008     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764011408534     Document Type: Article

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